What is the tone of the poem?
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- Complicated!—seriousness enlivened with delicate macabre humor? Surely she kids her own worldly busyness in the opening line.
William Galperin reads the poem as a feminist affirmation. Not death, he finds, but immortality is Dickinson’s subject. In the end the poet asserts a triumph possible only because she has renounced the proposal of Death, that threatening gentleman caller who might have married her (“Emily Dickinson’s Marriage Hearse,” Denver Quarterly, Winter 1984: 62–73).
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